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Stalin used the office of General Secretary to create a strong power base for himself. After Lenin death in 1924 he rose to greater power.
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Like Hitler, Mussolini had great speaking skills and soon became dictator of Italy. Italy later becomes part of the Axis powers.
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When the U.S Stock market crashed it effected europeans nations as well. America began asking for there loans back. This created rough times for many countries which helped lead to WWII
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Without the approval of the Japanese government, Japan invaded Manchuria. The belief of each countries nationalism and the thought of expanding created WWII.
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FDR broke the neutrality and sent forces to Britian with the Lend-Lease act.
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People of Germany wanted a way out of this devastating time and Hitler was a powerful leader that promised them a way out. Main cause of war because if Germany was doing good they wouldn't listen to radicals
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This made it that the U.S can't be drawn into war, and also made it illegal to give loans to countries at war.
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In 1935 Mussolini used an excuse about the border of Italy and Ethiopia to launch an attack. Ethiopia fell.
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German troops invaded the Rhineland which no one took action to punish Germany. It violated the Treaty of Versailles.
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Spain was trying to revolt against its political views. Germany and Fascists Italy sent forces and equipments to Nationalists. Nationalists won and a Spanish dictator was created.
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Germany annexed Austria and it became a part of the German Empire. This was against the Treaty of Versailles.
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It was an agreement that allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. This showed Germany that it can keep growing and invading with no consequences.
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Germany formally took possesion of Sudentenland.
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This night was a raid against Jewish people in Germany. It was referred to as the Night of Broken Glass.
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Agreement between Germany and Russia that they would not attack each other. Also secretly promised the Soviet Union land.
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A couple days after the Nazi- Soviet Pact Germany invaded Poland, Hitler dressed up a German criminal in a Polish military uniform and shot him at the German Polish border. The next day he said that he had been attacked by Poland. Germany used a military strategy known as blitzkrieg against Poland.
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This was when Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germany did not attack in the winter of 1939-1940 where there was a period of inaction where it is called the Phony War.
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Churchill and Roosevelt made the Atlantic Charter. They both worked to stop Hitler.
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German army trapped British and French armies at Dunkirk, 330,000 men were rescued in nine days.
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France had no choice but to surrender because of Germanys great military power.
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German planes bombed the city of London to scare civilians, the attack did not succed and Hitler withdrew.
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Japan invades French Indo-China for economic interests. It threatened the interest of the United States and Great Britian. Japan refused any compromise.
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The Lend- Lease Act allowed the U.S. to lend allies with war goods between 1941 and 1945.
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It defined the Allies goals for the post-war world.Drafted by Britain and the United States.
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Japan bombed the U.S naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Great damage was endured by America.
